Plans to build a 75-bed care home along the canal in Hatton have been resubmitted just months after a previous scheme was blocked.

District planners threw out the last proposal put forward by Belmont Healthcare in March after 20 objections had been received from local residents and organisations.

Warwick District Council said the scheme would have harmed the local canal conservation area and would not have been close enough to "primary health care services to serve the residents of the development".

But Belmont has now submitted new plans for the land on the south side of Birmingham Road, for a three-storey facility.

The fresh scheme, which has a slightly reduced height to the previous one, still includes a footpath to Hatton Locks and access from an existing roundabout.

The application says it will preserve as many trees as possible to help break up the appearance of the building.

The planning application said the healthcare provider wants to "create an environment where residents receive the highest standard of care, where dignity is respected, where talents and interests are encourages and where life is lived to its fullest potential".

It added: "People in the UK are living longer, and some elderly people need additional care to live fulfilled lives. 

"There is a well recorded shortage of care provisions to cater for this rise in the older population, both locally and nationally. 

"To be able to provide care homes that meet the operator's requirements while supplying the residents with beautiful, high quality care environments, a great deal of consideration should be given to the site location and the surrounding amenities. 

"This will ensure that the proposed development is sustainable in its design and can adapt to the evolving requirements and increasing numbers of the population that will require this care."

See the full plans here.